Escape of 7 Violent Felons Could Hurt Texas Prison Bond Request

AUTHOR(S)

Albanese, Elizabeth

PUB. DATE

January 2001

SOURCE

Bond Buyer;01/05/2001, Vol. 335 Issue 31051, p3

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports on the impact of the escape of seven inmates from a south Texas prison unit on the state's proposed prison bond package. Prison facilities to be financed by the bond package; Investigation into the escape.

Focuses on a failed escape plan by a British prisoner serving at Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, England. Coloring his body with a fluorescent-yellow felt pen; Effort to make his guards believe he was jaundiced.

Describes the experience of an unknown escapee from the penal settlements of New South Wales as narrated in a petition letter addressed to Denman Thomas, the lord chief of justice of England in 1844. Details of the escape of Mary Bryant and recapture in the 18th century; Reference to the armed...